Is “follow your dreams” a wise advice?
“Follow Your Dreams” is an overused romantic feel good cliche by Motivational Guru’s & the Wanna-be Online Personalities who want to attract more viewers, likes and potential clients.It is by far the WORST ADVICE any youngster can get. That is why when I get clients or students - I remind them one bitter fact - Not everyone is meant to achieve their dreams. And not everyone will achieve their dreams.So if you want to achieve your dreams - go earn that privilege by every drop of your blood, sweat and tears - and know the fact in the end - even after every sacrifice you have made - you may still achieve nothing.If that is how you are and that is the attitude you have - then you may “follow your dreams”. Otherwise it is best to ‘sleep’ and ‘dream’ whatever you wish to.Remember - EVERYONE has a dream. 99% never achieve them. Ask yourself why.Loy Machedo
Which do you think is more important: following the dreams your parents want for you or following your own dre?
It depends on your dream but since it's your life i suggest do what you think is right since you have to live them and If you don't enjoy what you're doing then what's the point of living? but sometimes you have to follow your parents dreams too in order to get there
If you need to leave your family to follow your dreams, should you?
Your dreams are only that—dreams. Your family is what you have now. If you fail to follow your dreams, you lose nothing, and more importantly, you hurt no one. If you abandon your family, you will not only hurt them, but you will hurt your own reputation, probably forever, and you may (and probably will) never actually accomplish what you have set out to do.Put enough faith in your family that you can share your aspirations with them and ask them to come along with you for the ride. If they try to talk you out of it, listen to them. Listen to their reasons. Consider that you haven’t thought this through.There are people every day who have good reasons to separate. My parents separated because they had different dreams, but they did so after careful deliberation and consideration. They were very careful that it wouldn’t destroy my dreams in the process. They are both delightfully happy now, and remain close friends (we’re all getting together on Sunday for a fall picnic). But the reason they’re happy is not because they followed their dreams—it’s because they cared for other people, and respected themselves, enough to make sure they did it right.
Follow your dreams, Or play it safe?
Just because you might fail doesn't mean that something isn't worth trying. You might be the exception to the rule. And who says those people making costumes from little theater and singing is small plays aren't happy? Who says they are "nowhere?" And by what yardstick do you measure your success? By whose standards? For many doing what they love and loving what they do is the ultimate measure of success. Money, fame and fortune is irrelevant. For me being stuck in a job that gives me the car the house, the possessions, the money but not the joy would be a far bigger failure. I would have sacrificed an essential part of myself for someone else's definition of success. I'd rather be making dresses nowhere than a middle manager somewhere. You need to define success in your own mind. There's nothing wrong with starting at the bottom and working hard. Most people who are successful are not afraid of the bottom and they are not afraid of working hard. I think maybe you also need to stop living your life according to some master plan. Why is it important to spend so many years in one place? I think you would be miserable to stay so long in one spot and not working to your ultimate goal. six years teaching english is a country like japan is about as far from feeling the rush of freedom as you can get. You are aware that you can get bachelor degrees in theater arts such as dance, writing, costumes, acting, and singing? And that a degree in theater arts can enhance your chances of success in writing acting dancing costumes whatever? And if you get a degree in something just for the sake of the degree then it is worthless if you don't do something with it. I think you are limiting yourself with your six year plan and you know it and THAT is why you are having so many second thoughts. Remember the old cliche, life is what is happening while you are making plans. Stop making plans, don't be scared and jump into life with both feet. You only get one life, don't waste it wishing you were doing something else. Someday you might be on your death bed wondering why you were so scared to live while you still could,
Should I follow my dream, or get a good job?
I think you should at least try to find out if what you consider your dream is something you’ll enjoy doing.Without even trying it out, can you really say if it’s your dream?The thing is, if you had already tried it and if it’d become your passion, you wouldn’t need to ask this question. You would follow your passion, because that’s what people who have a true passion do. They follow it.To me ‘follow your passion’ is a bullshit advice.Why?Because when you already have a passion you don’t need anyone to tell you that you should follow it. You will do it anyway. Passion is just so powerful.If you can still decide that you will do something else, it is not your passion. Passion wouldn’t let you just walk away.When you have a passion you no longer have a choice. You follow it.So I’d say ‘follow your passion’ is neither good nor bad advice. It’s a bullshit advice. Nobody needs this kind of advice, because those who have passion will follow it anyway, and those who don’t have it, don’t have anything to follow, right?You should be simply brave enough to be yourself. Dare to do things differently than the majority of your peers. Dare to reject the conventional career building model (meaning, making choices that are “practical”, sticking to one career and playing it safe), because when you choose to build your career that way your chances at uncovering your passion are probably close to 0%.-Part of it appeared in my previous answer Lukasz Laniecki's answer to How should one approach the conflicting advice of Cal Newport's 'So Good They Can't Ignore You' versus following your passions or interests directly?
Should i follow my dream to become an airline pilot?
Commerical pilots are hired out of the military, not out of some school.
Should I go to college, or follow my dreams?
I have three goals in life, to play music (even if it's just at local coffee shops), get married, and travel. I was living out on my own, but things went downhill, and well, now i'm stuck living at home again. My mom got me to go to enroll in college, to get an EMT certification, but i don't feel like going to college. Not only is it about not wanting to go to college, but high school, and, well, every year in school was horrible (I've been to five places for high school, and only made it like 5 weeks into my senior year before dropping out). I am really shy and socially awkward, I only have two friends, really, and both of them haven't gone to college and seem happier than me. They are both pursing their passions. So I'm here, school starts in august, but i am dreading the date. i want to reach these goals, but when i tell people, like my family, they tell me it's impractical. I can't say i've really enjoyed my life, and it's probably my fault, but i don't care about making money, i don't care about buying a house, or staying in this town. i want to leave so bad, i just don't know what to do. I mean, yeah, life will be a lot easier if i go to college and put my dreams on the side, but then afterward, i wouldn't start right after college, because i want to do these things. I could write all day about how shitty and confused i feel, but that isn't going to get me anywhere. Back to the basic question, Should i do school, or my dreams? Personal experience is preferred.
I'm heavily depressed because I can't follow my dreams. What do I do (I don't have any professional help)?
Dreams are overrated. What happens if you follow your dreams? No way to know until you do it. It will be hard, the hardest thing you've ever done. You will face setbacks, roadblocks, mental blocks. If you make it through all that, you might find out your dream life isn't the life you wanted anyway. What dream comes next?I've found it much easier to follow myself. What is it that I'm trying to do here? I keep chasing these dreams and they never come true. Everyone else's dreams seem to come true, why not mine? It's SO depressing.I finally figured out that my dreams are just mental constructs. Everyone else's apparent success is just a projection of what I want to see. None of this is reality.So I learned to pay more attention to what is really happening. What do my failed dreams have in common? Where is there resistance, and when does flow start? What is it that I'm trying to do here?Life is so hard, but it isn't supposed to be. We create our own problems by ignoring reality. We blind ourselves to our real goals by chasing superficial dreams.Let it go. Accept that you can't follow your dreams. Recognize there is a good reason you can't. Figure out what that reason is.Life is not about pursuit, or achievement. Pursuit is the problem. Achievement is stagnation.You are here to live your life, so live it. The destination is irrelevant, it's the journey that matters.